While I won't put this blonde in the ranks of the greats, I'll comment that it's a huge step up from the organic Belgian wheat I sipped prior. The other
tasters were smitten with Brunehaut's organic and gluten-free mission, though neither
eats an organic gluten-free lifestyle even remotely.
And that probably had the expected boost Brunehaut wants it
to have on consumers. Organic and gluten free in 2015 still
connotes a sacrifice and if the sacrifice ain't huge, it's
enough to get a compliment.

Avg price/liter: USD 9.69

ABV %: 6.5

Type: Pale Ale

If Brunehaut didn't exist,
someone else would step in to become Brunehaut. Well, I
hope not exactly. Brunehaut's beers, based on
the two I've tried, haven't been all that amazing.

Brunehaut's only claim to
fame so far is that they produce barley on their own
farmlands and, with a special process, remove the gluten
from the beer during brewing. Their organic blonde is
mean to have a scent of acacia, even of small white flowers.

While I won't put this blonde
in the ranks of the greats, I'll comment that it's a huge
step up from the
organic Belgian wheat I sipped prior. I had
considered this beer a write off and brought it over to a
friend's where three of us would share eight bottles of beer
I was bringing over, not all of them (including this one, I
figured) close to decent.

Was I trying to pawn off
second rate beer to buddies? That was one tiny
benefit. I realized a long time ago that what I
treasure may be valued as slop by others; and what I deride
is elsewhere revered. It's not like any of the beers I
am offloading come cheap or that I am asking cash from
others for the privilege of sipping. But why should I
keep them tucked away in the maid's quarters so that my wife
and I (which means me most of the time) are forced to sip
them later just to get rid of them.

If my verdict on a bottle is in and I don't require a second bottle to validate, that remaining brew will go on the top
of the list for beers to gift or share.

The other tasters were smitten with Brunehaut's organic and gluten-free mission, though neither
eats an organic gluten-free life style even remotely.
And that probably had the expected boost Brunehaut wants it
to have on consumers. Most people would be impressed a
blond beer, marketed as a pale ale, could taste so good
being organic and gluten free.

It's not good. It's
average. But organic and gluten free in 2015 still
connotes a sacrifice and if the sacrifice ain't huge, it's
enough to get a compliment.